Sunday: preparing Lemon curd for world domination

[Pinno718]

Morning

Another beautiful day.
Will get fuelled up and pedal.

But first: coffee.

 

[briantrumpet]

Bonjour. Off to la belle France for a couple of weeks after the normal intravenous coffee dose. Bike, bus, plane, navette, hotel, navette, train, train, bike, home.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

About time, I was waiting for your latest absurd thread title to say that earlier, the sky was a dirty yellow at the horizon and the few whispy clouds were a dark burgandy on top but black on the bottom.

It was lovely, but alas, there was no thread!

 

[Webbo2]

Another grey one here, not too warm either. So clothing choice might be difficult for todays club run.

 

[VinSumRox]

Sunny, breakfast , coffee then ride with a wee group, looks like shorts and shorts sleeves and 2 water bottles!

 

[sungod]

'ning

again a windycold and gloomygrey start, hurry up sun

chilly ride, cafe, coffee next and hope for blue sky in time for a bask, bubbly

 

[Stevo 666]

Morning

Another beautiful day.
Will get fuelled up and pedal.

But first: coffee.

What about the lemon curd?

 

[Stevo 666]

Legs are still recovering after yesterday's ride. I think our little hill climb challenge up the North Downs Ridge toward the end of the ride finished me off. Although managed to get up both without putting my foot down, I count that as a decent result.

Chilled start then off out with the hounds (and the wife). Later is undecided but may get some weights done.

 

[TLW1]

Nice wander into bishops castle from the campsite, breakfast from the coop followed by a 2nd one at a cafe 😎

Finish this then pack up the van and head home where apple based recovery will occur

 

[oxoman]

Morning peeps. Lovely gravel ride out spoilt by the p####### fairy. To be made worse by discovering the pump i was carrying was foobarred. Currently sat at my brothers waiting for him to turn up and lend me his track pump. That's 2 pumps I've discovered that have failed this yr. Arghh.

 

[Pinno718]

What about the lemon curd?

It's rising over Glasgow.

 

[Pinno718]

Still strong and slightly chilly wind. Still not in full summer gear* but I did bump into 2 lady cyclists which was compensation.

*Castelli Perfetto and vest + Sportful fleece lined bibs

 

[Pinno718]

Morning peeps. Lovely gravel ride out spoilt by the p####### fairy. To be made worse by discovering the pump i was carrying was foobarred. Currently sat at my brothers waiting for him to turn up and lend me his track pump. That's 2 pumps I've discovered that have failed this yr. Arghh.

I told you Latex is the way but you refuse to listen.

#stufftubeless

 

[oxoman]

I told you Latex is the way but you refuse to listen.

#stufftubeless

I was using my old bike with old oem wheels on and there the only flipping set not tubeless.

 

[sungod]

still cloudy, just a few gaps, no bask

decided to use the time to replace the srm batteries

out with the old...

keep a pic where these attach just in case...

in with the new, did some new wire tails too...

of course taking off the chainrings meant i should take the chance to clean them

oh, and while i'm about it, let's take the opportunity to investigate the preload adjuster that was never as good as the one on the old crank/spindle that was retired after about 12 years...

after much faffing about, each time freezing the spindle to get it in/out of the bearings without hammering, came to the conclusion that the adjuster i saved from the old spindle was a better design than the new style and swapped it over, all this only involved removing/replacing the crankset five times, the old adjuster immediately proved it's superiority

tasks expand to fill available time, the only defence is laziness